Saturday, July 13, 2013

NEW WATCH & A SHORT DRIVE IN THE WINNIE WAGON

I KNOW I CAN BE A PRETTY BORING CONVERSATIONALIST BUT WHEN I START PUTTING PEOPLE & DOGS TO SLEEP…..GEEEEEEZZZ

It wasn't so much Winnie the Bago needing to head out for a drive this morning as it was Kelly & I needing to go for a drive in Winnie the Bago. Just one of those little ‘morale booster' drives to just assure ourselves that yes we actually do have an RV.

A WINNIE WAGON LESSON LEARNED HERE THIS MORNING…..NOTICE THE SPACE BETWEEN OUR SIDE COACH DOOR ELECTRIC SLIDE OUT STEP & THE TOP OF THE CURB….COMING BACK FROM WALMART I OPENED THE SIDE DOOR & THAT STEP CAME OUT TRAPPING MY FOOT BETWEEN THE STEP & CURB. LUCKILY I WAS ABLE TO EXTRACT MY FOOT WITH ONLY A MINIMUM ‘OUCH’

KELLY HAD TO GO BACK IN FOR SOME WATER & I KNOW PHEEBS IS HOPING MOM BRINGS BACK A SNACK

I was still without a wristwatch & although no receipt, Kelly decided we should take the broken watch band & watch back to Walmart anyway. And that's what we did. No problem at the courtesy desk. We then walked over to the watch counter & found me another watch which will do me just fine. Only requirements needed was that it had a dial I could illuminate in darkness, a face with some numbers, & two easily seeable hands. No miniscule digital finigery for me to try my patience & anger myself over!! My new watch is a Timex Expedition with a leather strap. Simple, & I'm good to go. I am a very time conscious person so for me a watch is a necessity. Might be able to get away without socks sometimes, but not a watch.

PLAIN & SIMPLE & THAT’S ALL I NEED

ON THE WAY HOME PHEEBS COMMANDEERS THE PASSENGER SEAT

AND KELLY GETS SLEEPILY RELEGATED TO THE COUCH

Nice drive on a very fine Saturday morning & how nice to be out & about in the Winnie Wagon.

A COUPLE RV BUMS LAYING ON THE BED WATCHING OUT THE BACK WINDOW THIS MORNING

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9 comments:

Sure is nice to get out even for short drive in your rv. Spend that day at the beach in Goderich and overnight in Walmart would have been awesome!Back to the beach for breaky in the morning.We have done that.

Makes me want to take Therapy out for a drive. Don't know that we could get her out the driveway right now with all the construction on our street. Oh well, maybe in the fall. How fun for Pheebs and Kelly to enjoy the back window view together.

A day in your camper is like a vacation from home. We were thinking about how we enjoyed that so much in the past. That is when we just decided to visit Denali park again. We both miss having a camper in AK.Happy to see you got a basic time piece for yourself.

AL'S CAMERA EQUIPMENT

A sometimes asked question readers have about my blog is what kind of a camera do I use. Well I have 8 of them and use them all. Five Nikon DSLR's, two quality Sony point and shoots plus one older Canon point and shoot.

'UPDATE':: July 2017 Thanks to a very generous blog reader I have been able to update my Nikon camera equipment and supplement my camera gear with a couple additional fine Sony cameras as well.I now have a 'donated' Nikon D7200 sporting my new Nikkor 18-300 3.5 zoom lens. Also have picked up a new Nikkor 1.8 primary 35mm lens. In addition I also now have a Sony RX100-3 camera as well as a Sony Exmore Cybershot. I have given my Canon Powershot point and shoot camera to a neighbor.

- In early 2017 I replaced my Nikon D-90 camera with a new D-3400 after the 'auto focus' feature on my aging D-90 quit working. The Nikon D-90 had been my work horse camera sporting a Nikkor 18-55mm 1:3.5-5.6 lens. I used this camera for most of my landscapes and I now have it set up for night photography where 'auto focus' is not necessary.

-My older faithful and favorite Nikon D-40 finally packed it in during the summer of 2015 and I replaced it with a new Nikon D-3100.

- Previous to my Nikon D-90, most of my photos were taken with my old faithful Nikon D-50 from 2006 to early 2011 whereupon the D-50 suffered a rather gruesome death when it fell off a table onto a cement porch in southeastern Arizona. The 70-300mm lens on the camera survived the fall but the D-50 did not. My Nikkor lenses are interchangable between the D-90 the D-3100 and the D-3400.